Jake Chapman 🇺🇸🚀 ✨🇺🇸
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Working at the nexus of national security & VC. Father to a superhero. Lets live forever and travel the stars ✨ Partner @marque_vc & Adjunct @randcorporation
San Francisco, CA
Joined June 2015
1/ Here is how the abomination that is the AT-ST came about. Spoiler alert, it comes down to compromises & mission creep. "Initial Requirement: We need a small dropship deliverable armored sentry tower (ST) for forward operating bases with space for 4 sentries". An early sketch:
Now that Andor has given us a glimpse inside the Empire’s bureaucracy and military industrial complex, I want a “Pentagon Wars” style movie about the development of the AT-ST and the corners that were cut which resulted in it becoming easy prey for a bunch of Ewoks!.#StarWars
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Weather modification is passé, weather control is where it’s at. Humans have been modifying weather without intent for centuries, it’s time we shape it to human needs.
Cloud seeding in populated areas seems risky. I do wonder if we should be doing this kind of thing at all.
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RT @jenpwcoleman: Pray for these angels… they are missing from Camp Mystic. I’ll keep adding as I get them.
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Clarity of thought.
The solution to obesity was ultimately technological, not social. The solution to Covid was ultimately technological, not social. The solution to climate change will ultimately be technological, not social. Why do we think the solution to low fertility has to be social?.
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Was just looking at the national security predictions we made for our LPs for 2025 and. we were pretty good. From the summary. //BREAK//. NATO/UKRAINE: We expect to see the preponderance of the forces pushing for a pivot to China and away from Europe/Ukraine. This won’t.
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🤦♂️.
While @AFResearchLab has a known reputation for wasteful SBIR funding, perhaps less well covered are the ways in which its incompetence actively creates security risks. One illustration that has caught our eye has been Intelligent Fusion, which has received $20M+ from AFRL.
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RT @zoecabina: One of my most vivid memories of a music festival is Australia Day, 2011. I was 16, surrounded by sweaty, chemically enhance….
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Internet sensation and totally not a Russian plant.
Hi, I'm Ivan - a totally-not-suspicious aerospace prodigy. I just happen to have a charming Russian accent, a past internship at Sukhoi (no big deal), and a mild obsession with drone jet propulsion systems.
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BAD news for puffy. If they’re hung on racketeering (which is really hard to prove) he’s gonna be found guilty on almost all the basic charges.
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I love 2X2 matrices. I know they get a bad rap but I think that there are often simple and profound truths elucidated by the 4 buckets. Here is the newest one. It comes from a private discussion about marital financial dynamics and their correlation to divorce. These are some
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“Seize the means of production” lol. Do people still talk like that? He’s not just a commie d-bag but he’s one with the intellectual depth of a middle schooler. 😭.
“The end goal is seizing the means of production”. Good luck with this, New York City.
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Mamdani is toxic. It’s absurd to believe that he won’t condemn “Globalize the intifada” because he won’t condemn any language. I’m sure if people were chanting calls for violence against Muslims in the streets of NYC he would feel free to condemn it.
I watched & listened. He won’t condemn the language because he supports the intifada. He grew up wearing a keffiyeh. He founded SJP on his campus. He marched (& was arrested) against Israel on Oct 13 (6 days after brutal terrorist massacre). He supports BDS. He is and will be.
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🌶️We've lost the 3rd Offset its Time for Something New. Since the end of WW2 the Department of Defense has pursued a series of offset strategies designed to provide the U.S. an asymmetrical advantage. The most recent of these strategies was a miscue, which has left us in a
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Iran has zero air defense. If they don’t give up the nuclear program and welcome ongoing inspections then…. We should impose a no fly zone and own Iran’s sky’s. If they try to excavate nuclear facilities, those excavators should be stopped. The program needs to end. Full stop.
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Where is Snake Pliskin? Gonna need some help to Escape from New York pretty soon.
Zohran Mamdani thinks the NYPD should be removed specifically from high-crime areas. He says that’s as mayor, he’d replace cops with social workers—and turn the subway into a network of homeless shelters.
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I want to recognize the welders, composites technicians, engineers, and maintainers who built and maintained the platforms and munitions used to destroy Iran’s nuclear weapons program. It takes a village (and a strong industrial base).
. @SecDef “I want to recognize the pilots who flew those bombers. Who flew those fighters. Who flew those refuelers. Warriors. I want to recognize the sailors on those destroyers, in those subs, on the carriers. Warriors.”
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RT @EODHappyCaptain: Iran has been at war with us for a long time. In 2015, it was reported that at least 500 U.S. military deaths in Iraq….
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It’s bad for America that these clowns are the face of tech / Silicon Valley to so many Americans rather than the hard work being done in places all around the country like “the Gundo”.
We launched our ultra premium tequila today in LA at Delilah’s.
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